Abstract. We consider a control problem where the decision maker interacts with a standard Markov decision process with the exception that the reward functions vary arbitrarily ove...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach for building and managing large scale agent based systems. We identify different classes of policies for agent based componen...
Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to...
—While the polling or request/response paradigm adopted by many network and systems management approaches form the backbone of modern monitoring and management systems, the most ...